Sec. 31010. Funding for palliative medicine physician training
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $20,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out a program to award grants and contracts to accredited schools of medicine, schools of osteopathic medicine, teaching hospitals, and graduate medical education programs for the purpose of providing support for projects that fund the training of physicians or specialists who plan to teach or practice palliative medicine. Amounts made available to an awardee pursuant to subsection
(a)shall be used to— provide training in interprofessional or interdisciplinary team-based palliative medicine through a variety of service rotations, such as rotations with respect to consultation services or acute and chronic care services, and rotations in other health care settings, including extended care facilities, ambulatory care and comprehensive evaluation units, hospices, home care, and community care programs; develop specific performance-based measures to evaluate the competency of trainees; and provide training in interprofessional or interdisciplinary, team-based palliative medicine. In this section, the term graduate medical education program means a program sponsored by an accredited school of medicine, an accredited school of osteopathic medicine, a hospital, or a public or private institution that— offers postgraduate medical training in the specialties and subspecialties of medicine; and has been accredited by— the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; or the American Osteopathic Association through its Committee on Postdoctoral Training (or a successor committee).